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Friday, April 17, 2020

Tuesday, 2nd July 2019 ... Weekly Volunteers

Present:

John, John b, Ray, Mark, David w, Ian, Terry, Keith, Bob, Pat, Jonathan, Bernard, Mike p, Paul, David a and Martin

Activities:

- looked the ponies and 13 of the cattle.  The remaining 7 cattle were not spotted
- big sweep across the reserve for bracken, and down to the stream
- some pine pulling on triangle in front of chalet
- located a site for future owl nest box
- pulled bracken in the quarry
- watered the whips around the tool store
- mapped on gps the trees marked for this years cutting for the cut to the causeway and the cut across owl wood
- cut bracken on the first part of the ol1 bird count route
- put fence posts around hornbeams, to stop cattle knocking them over

Observations

- discussed if there was a problem with Mike P's blue tags
- good weather, perhaps a bit too hot
- Raven
- recovered dead dragonfly, killed by freak accident with sedge stem.  Nobody reporting safety issues

Martin

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